Selling your house is often a stressful, multi-week ordeal. Get ready by understanding the seller’s real estate timeline from the offer to the close.
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Our 2026 Pittsburgh Real Estate Update: How to Make Sense Of A Confusing Market
How to Juggle Buying And Selling A House At the Same Time
Preparing Your Home for Sale: Your 7-Step Checklist
Successfully Selling Your (Investment) Home
Becoming a Pittsburgh Landlord: How to Rent Property
Understanding the Home Inspection: What to Expect As a Buyer or Seller
Comparing Offers On Your Home: 6 Questions to Ask When Weighing Your Options
Preparing Your Home to Sell: A Checklist For A Smoother Sales Process
10 Advantages of Working With A Real Estate Agent
Real estate is a complicated industry. For many people, a house is the biggest asset they’ll buy or sell in their entire lifetime, and this asset can come with mountains of paperwork, laws to abide by, and financial constraints. There’s a lot to keep track of. Fortunately, your realtor can simplify all of this.
Selling Your Home During COVID: 5 Strategies for Real Estate Success Despite Coronavirus
The Home Selling Timeline: What to Expect Before, During, and After Your Sale
How to Hold A Safe Open House During COVID-19 (Plus Two Alternatives Worth Trying)
What is Home Equity? Why it Matters, and How to Grow It
Why Selling A Home Isn’t For Everyone: 3 Reasons It Could Be Better To Stay Put
Despite what many expected during the pandemic, the Pittsburgh real estate market is currently a seller’s market, especially for those looking to sell their homes around $300,000. Still, there are reasons you may want to hold onto your home.
Market Update: The Impact of COVID-19 on Pittsburgh’s Real Estate Market
When we all started to quarantine in March to avoid COVID-19, we expected the real estate market to take an enormous hit. We predicted the housing market would freeze up because people were going to stop looking for new homes—especially as their personal finances grew uncertain. Our prediction was wrong. Instead, the Pittsburgh real estate market has grown rapidly through COVID-19.
Home Inspection Checklist: 10 Line Items Your Inspector Will Look For (And What You Should Do As the Buyer or Seller)
No matter which side of the sale we’re on-- representing the buyer or the seller, there is always a nervous anticipation when it comes to the inspection. As a buyer, the inspection is a reality check that is a bit like jumping from the “first date” to the “tenth date,” and you may learn some details about the house that leave you a bit uncomfortable. If you’re the seller, a long list of problems could kill your sale or directly cut into your home’s value. You may have initially listed your cozy Cape Cod for $200,000, but a serious foundational issue could torpedo the sale—or cost you an extra $10,000 (5% of your sale price!). As the buyer, an inspection that comes back with a series of issues could work in your favor since you can use them to negotiate a lower price or have the seller fix them before you move in—or it could completely turn you away.
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Pittsburgh Home Sellers During Quarantine: What to Think About Now
For the better part of a year, we have been planning our move from Squirrel Hill to Swissvale, which will include selling the house we’ve called “home” for the last four years. We analyzed every variable, made a detailed list of projects to complete, consulted many contractors and lined up the “perfect plan” to list our house between March 15th and May 1st. My dream was “to list the house when the tulips bloom!” We certainly didn’t take a global pandemic into consideration, and we expected to have more time to plan for a “backup plan”!